Tea Party - Unions?

A different spin on a tired topic, perhaps, but lately I was browsing the news and caught a glimpse of the Bay Area Transit strike.

A tentative deal between representatives of the San Francisco Bay Area's rail transit system and its striking unions has been reached, ending a
four-day strike that left commuters scrambling for alternative transportation and caused massive gridlock on the area's highways.

I see Unions as a form of political power within the democratic party. They go hand in fist. Unions will occasionally demonize their allies, but it's
usually to tell them that they are straying from previously made deals. And those stories get buried rather quickly as a new deal is struck or the
pols are made to toe the line. They don't want to lose part of their base after all.

Now that I think about it, they are similar to the Tea Party faction within the GOP, but have even more power. Both occasionally cause rifts within
their own parties.

What was ironic was a man, a community organiser, stated that he would not negotiate. Someone who spend his whole life supporting unions,
negotiations, and the people that they represented, did a 180 on his supposed beliefs.

Dear world -- Please remember it's only the Tea Party members whom are terrorists. Al-qaeda are our friends until they aren't our friends, but we
will keep you updated on their status. But again, the Tea Party will allows be referred to as 'terrorists' going forward. You can also begin
calling them the Terrorist Party as needed.

Dear world -- Please remember it's only the Tea Party members whom are terrorists. Al-qaeda are our friends until they aren't our friends, but we
will keep you updated on their status. But again, the Tea Party will allows be referred to as 'terrorists' going forward. You can also begin
calling them the Terrorist Party as needed.

I know it's great fun to label all actors and movie people as libs, but it just shows your ignorance.

edit on 22-10-2013 by olaru12 because: (no reason given)

Why is it then, when unions strike in order to force a negotiation, it is considered to be a representation for the needs of its members, but when the
Tea Party representatives hold steady for the people they represent, it is considered terrorism?

Why is it then, when unions strike in order to force a negotiation, it is considered to be a representation for the needs of its members, but when the
Tea Party representatives hold steady for the people they represent, it is considered terrorism?

Because Union workers are just your average working Jamies (it used to be "working Joes" till that plumber guy came along; it has since been changed
to a much more suitable, less mysoginistic, gender-neutral "Jamie') trying to keep their heads above water and feed their families. They are the
backbone of the American economy and pillars of their communities and paragons of virtue and true patriots and when they strike they are fearlessly
going toe to toe with the evil greedy super rich bankster oil baron reptilian overlords. They are the good guys.
Teabaggers are just a bunch of stupid redneck inbred brain-washed christian gun-toting bitter-clinger warmongering baby-killers unless they are
protesting abortion in which case they're women-killers with too little sense and too much Fox News. They have no appreciation of the value of
compromise or of working together; always running around accusing good Democrats of being Communists even though most baggers don't even know what
communism really is because they're just a bunch of
far-right fascist nazi wingnut extremists and we'd be better off without them.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds because hypocrites have ways of looking at the world that blind them to their own hypocrisy.

Why is it then, when unions strike in order to force a negotiation, it is considered to be a representation for the needs of its members, but when the
Tea Party representatives hold steady for the people they represent, it is considered terrorism?

Because Union workers are just your average working Jamies (it used to be "working Joes" till that plumber guy came along; it has since been changed
to a much more suitable, less mysoginistic, gender-neutral "Jamie') trying to keep their heads above water and feed their families. They are the
backbone of the American economy and pillars of their communities and paragons of virtue and true patriots and when they strike they are fearlessly
going toe to toe with the evil greedy super rich bankster oil baron reptilian overlords. They are the good guys.
Teabaggers are just a bunch of stupid redneck inbred brain-washed christian gun-toting bitter-clinger warmongering baby-killers unless they are
protesting abortion in which case they're women-killers with too little sense and too much Fox News. They have no appreciation of the value of
compromise or of working together; always running around accusing good Democrats of being Communists even though most baggers don't even know what
communism really is because they're just a bunch of
far-right fascist nazi wingnut extremists and we'd be better off without them.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds because hypocrites have ways of looking at the world that blind them to their own hypocrisy.

So any comparison to how atrocious the behavior is doesn't make any sense. Of course the Tea Party are being idiots when they shut down the
government. Of course you can't compare that to a petty non public union dispute at the local or even national level.

That's not negotiating and it's not 'striking'. If they wanted to strike then all of them could take unpaid leave and sit outside our doorsteps
or local businesses, requesting that we support their cause. Like the Unions you compare them to would do.

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